CFT: vdfuse port (was: Re: Mounting VirtualBox vdi files [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED])

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Juergen Lock wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 01:21:26PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Warren Block wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Juergen Lock wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Dumping the partitions of that FreeBSD system worked just now.  Not what
>>>>> I'd call a thorough test, but it did read everything in the filesystem
>>>>> without problems.
>>>>
>>>> Ok that sounds promising...  Someone want to do more tests or should I
>>>> just commit the port? :)
>>>
>>> Testing writes has not been as successful.  fdisk and bsdlabel work fine, as
>>> does writing individual files.  But trying to restore onto a vdfuse/mdconfig
>>> partition just goes away.  The machine is idle, restore waits in wdrain, and
>>> further access to that device does not respond.  I think I saw fuse in a
>>> fuse_msg state, but can't verify that now.
>>
>> Further information: copying a single file onto the mounted filesystem
>> works.  More than one, with restore or just cp, and vdfuse and the
>> copying process go to wdrain forever.
>
> Hm ok...  Which FreeBSD version was this btw?

8.1-stable as of Monday, 32-bit i386.